view_detail: View data with enhanced browser-based interface

In framework: Structured Data Science Project Scaffolding

View data with enhanced browser-based interface

Description

Opens an interactive, browser-based viewer for R objects with search, filtering, sorting, pagination, and export capabilities (CSV/Excel). Provides a rich DataTables interface for data frames and enhanced views for plots, lists, and other R objects. This is the recommended function for exploring data in detail.

Usage

view_detail(x, title = NULL, max_rows = 5000)

Arguments

x	The data to view (data.frame, plot, list, function, or other R object)
title	Optional title for the view. If NULL, uses the object name.
max_rows	Maximum number of rows to display for data frames (default: 5000). Large data frames are automatically truncated with a warning.

Details

Unlike R's built-in View(), this function:

• Works consistently across all IDEs (VS Code, RStudio, Positron, terminal)

• Provides search and column filtering

• Allows export to CSV and Excel

• Offers sorting and pagination

• Respects IDE-native viewers (doesn't override them)

Value

Invisibly returns NULL. Function is called for its side effect of opening a browser window with the rendered view.

See Also

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